John Randolph

Two events in Gloucester for Memorial Day weekend will highlight history, recalling the roles of soldiers in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. On Saturday, reenactors of the 7th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line commemorate the 236th...

No one calls the War of 1812 America's finest hour. But it had its moments. Resentful over treatment by the British and determined to enhance national sovereignty, Henry Clay and a small group of "War Hawks" in the Twelfth Congress pushed an unprepared...

John Randolph Hearst Jr. Grandson and heir of William Randolph Hearst John Randolph Hearst Jr., 77, a grandson of media titan William Randolph Hearst and heir to the family fortune, died Friday in New York, Hearst Corp. said in a statement. The cause...

Sarah Beth Sichina and Zachary David Lumpkins were married July 2, at Cokesbury Memorial United Methodist Church in Abingdon, followed by a reception at the Richlin Ballroom. The bride is the daughter of Jane Lynne Spicer, of Belcamp, and the late John...

Mary Levkoff, a curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and a former curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has won a book prize for her monograph "Hearst the Collector."...

TALLAHASSEE — Democratic gubernatorial nominee Alex Sink has been endorsed by Republican state Sen. Alex Villalobos, and plans to get some mileage out of the Miami lawmaker's backing Tuesday at a capital city workforce center “to discuss the...

MATLOCK GUEST STARS EPISODE 8601 THE JUDGE Dick Van Dyke, Piper Laurie EPISODES 8606, 8607 THE DON Jose Ferrer, Joe Penny, William Conrad EPISODE 8610 THE COP Hector Elizondo EPISODE 8611 THE CHEF Roddy McDowall, Craig Claiborne EPISODE 8613...

"Fences" -- the 1987 Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner by August Wilson -- opened Monday to rave reviews for its first rialto revival. Two-time Oscar champ Denzel Washington was praised for his performance as Troy, a one-time baseball star turned...

The indie comedy Crazy Like a Fox had a novel setting – the horse country of Virginia – a cute plot conceit and a script with just enough of a literary bent to attract a couple of name actors – Roger Rees (Cheers) and Mary McDonnell (Dance...

The 2-year-old son of former NFL star quarterback Randall Cunningham has died in what Las Vegas authorities on Wednesday called an apparent backyard hot tub accident. The Clark County coroner's office identified the child as Christian Cunningham, and said...

Georgetown and Capitol Hill are known for their lovely homes in some of the region's most popular historic districts. Such districts help protect the character of older neighborhoods, but living in them can pose special concerns. "People are attracted to...

Where hip-hop, folk rock meet Almost a decade ago, when Elvin Estela and Christopher Gunst were in college and DJing at Loyola Marymount's KXLU-FM (88.9), it would have been hard to imagine the pair carpooling, let alone collaborating. Estela, under the...